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TIL when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 Pablo Picasso was a suspect

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k7DB TIL there was a lost chapter in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that had nine children originally in the factory alongside Charlie, his mom accompanying him inside, and features a room called the Pound and Cutting Room that kills two of the kids
nedyW TIL guru nanak promoted women equality in the 15th century.
kja5 TIL that the head of the Nazi Gestapo never got caught.
jN5da TIL Maurice Ravel’s Boléro was meant for the main theme song of The Legend of Zelda. They couldn’t get the rights until just after the game would release, so Koji Kondo wrote the iconic score in one night.
Z80xQ TIL About White House Journalist Lester Kinsolving, Who Repeatedly Raised the Issue of The AIDs Epidemic During Reagan Administration Press Conferences, Only to be Ridiculed with Homosexual Slurs by Press Secretary Larry Speakes.